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<td>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: UIUC Campus Faculty Association
Hosts Forum on Shared Governance and Academic Freedom,
Wednesday February 4<br>
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<td>Mon, 2 Feb 2015 09:23:33 -0600</td>
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<td>Campus Faculty Association
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:campusfacultyassoc@gmail.com"><campusfacultyassoc@gmail.com></a></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span
style="font-size:12pt;color:black">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:</span></b><span
style="font-size:12pt"> <b>UIUC</b> <b>Campus Faculty
Association Hosts Forum on Shared Governance and
Academic Freedom, Wednesday February 4</b></span></p>
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style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:12pt;color:black">The Campus Faculty
Association (CFA) at UIUC will
host a forum entitled “Shared Governance and Academic
Freedom: Where Are We
Now”. </span></p>
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style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span
style="font-size:12pt;color:black">WHEN
& WHERE:</span></b><span
style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> The forum is set for
Wednesday February
4, 2015 at 7:30pm at the University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright
St., Champaign.</span></p>
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style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span
style="font-size:12pt;color:black">WHO:</span></b><span
style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> The panel discussion
will feature Michael
Rothberg, Head of the UIUC Department of English and John K.
Wilson, </span><span style="font-size:12pt">the co-editor
of the influential AcademeBlog. Professor Rothberg helped
author a Provost’s report on hiring policies and procedures
in
the aftermath of the Steven Salaita firing.
Dr. Wilson has been following the Salaita case and other
academic
freedom cases for Academe and the Illinois AAUP.</span></p>
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style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Rothberg, Wilson and the
audience
will discuss the report from the standing Committee for
Academic Freedom and
Tenure (CAFT), the University administration’s refusal to
implement recommendations
from that report and what this means for shared governance
at UIUC. Another focus will be the likely censure of
the University by the American Association of University
Professors (AAUP). Censured universities may not claim to
subscribe to the AAUP standards of academic freedom, and may
have trouble
recruiting tenure-track faculty. </span></p>
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style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span
style="font-size:12pt;color:black">More:</span></b><span
style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> In
the weeks since the release of the CAFT report the Campus
Faculty Association
has circulated a petition calling on the administration to
implement the three corrective
actions outlined by the committee. It
calls for an assessment of Professor Salaita’s professional
fitness by a faculty
committee appointed by the Dean of the College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences; it
recommends administrators retract their statements asserting
“civility” as an
employment standard. Finally, it asks the University of
Illinois to meet its
financial obligations to Professor Salaita. In a few days,
more than 65 tenured and
tenure-track faculty from UIUC have signed the petition. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span
style="font-size:12pt;color:black">About CFA</span></b><span
style="font-size:12pt;color:black">: The Campus Faculty
Association advocates for administrative
transparency and the rights for tenure and non-tenure track
faculty, including fairness
and equity in hiring, shared governance, and academic
freedom. CFA is dedicating to continuing the legacy of the
University of Illinois as a premiere public education
institution. </span><span
style="font-size:12pt;color:black"></span></p>
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style="font-size:12pt"> </span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span
style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">FOR MORE
INFORMATION,
CONTACT</span></b><span
style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">: Bruce Rosenstock,
Campus Faculty Association
President, 217-359-5394, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:brsnstck@gmail.com">brsnstck@gmail.com</a>.</span><span
style="font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
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